Maryborough East Port Laoise Thoir (Irish) | |
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Sovereign state | Ireland |
Province | Leinster |
County | Laois |
Area | |
• Total | 101.82 km2 (39.31 sq mi) |
Maryborough East or East Maryborough [1] (Irish : Port Laoise Thoir [2] ) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Ireland. [3] [4] [5]
Maryborough is the former name of the town of Portlaoise, established in 1548 and named after Queen Mary I; it was given its current name in 1929.[ citation needed ]
Maryborough East is located in central County Laois.
Maryborough East and West were in the Middle Ages the land of the Cinel Crimthann, an Irish clan with the surname Ó Duibh (Duffy or O'Diff). [6]
It is referred to in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):
Fa Dún Mascc as mín fuinn, | Under Dun Masc of smooth land, |
Maryborough was originally a single barony; it was divided into East and West before 1807.
Below is a list of settlements in Maryborough East barony:
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Maryborough East.